Along the Silk Road

The Toos Foundation presents its hugely popular, vibrant dance/music production, Along the Silk Road – Marco Polo’s travels through music and dance.

A cast of dancers, musicians, poets and actors will take the audience on a musical and historical journey along the Silk Road of ancient times, dropping into different countries along the way to sample their art and culture.

Live music will be performed on the night by a group of international musicians conducted by Farnosh Behzad, who has also composed much of the music for the show.

Along the Silk Road follows the story of the famous Italian traveller and trader Marco Polo whose travels along the Silk Road between 1276 and 1291 and his experiences at the court of the Mongol leader, Kublai Khan were recounted to Rustichello da Pisa with whom Polo shared a prison cell in Genoa. Da Pisa wrote down the stories in Old French and the subsequent book, The Travels of Marco Polo, did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. For over a thousand years the Silk Road was the most significant international trade route across the Afro-Eurasian landmass that connected East, South, and Western Asian with the Mediterranean and European worlds as well as parts of North and East Africa. Extending 5,000 miles the Silk Road gets its name from the lucrative Chinese silk trade along it. It brought goods and services, technology, religion and philosophy to many countries along the way and promoted the global exchange of art and culture.

The show will be performed at 5.30pm in English and in Farsi at 8.30pm.

Tickets:
Full price: £20.00
Concessions: £15.00
Premium Tickets: £40.00 – includes a meet & greet, and access to the VIP bar area.
Tickets can be purchased through the Artsdepot website: www.artsdepot.co.uk

Ages 5+

Tickets are no longer available for this event